#AskPaulKirtley 81 – Covid Effects On Bushcraft, Dealing With Increased Littering, Office To Outdoors Career Transitions, Bushcraft Memory
#AskPaulKirtley is back. I asked if people wanted it (here) and the resounding response was positive. So, here we are, with a brand new episode of APK. In this episode of #AskPaulKirtley I answer questions about Covid effects on the bushcraft industry, office to outdoor career transitions, how to remember bushcraft and survival uses of plants, and how to promote good outdoor ethics, including leave-no-trace, to people outside of the usual outdoor community.
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24 thoughts on “#AskPaulKirtley 81 – Covid Effects On Bushcraft, Dealing With Increased Littering, Office To Outdoors Career Transitions, Bushcraft Memory”
Thank you, Paul. Excellent!
You are very welcome Dudley.
Hey Paul,
Great to have #AskPaulKirtley back ! As you said we cannot satisfy everyone but you have already put so much relevant information out there. I think now it depends on us to do our homework with all materials you gave us.
Cheers,
Hugues
Thanks Hughes. I appreciate your support. Cheers, Paul
Hi Paul,
Really pleased that APK is back, perfect timing as we are on day 1 of another lockdown! Would love to see an index of the questions but as you are sharing your knowledge for free I’m more than happy to have to look myself.
Your output, whether paid or free is always excellent so please keep it up. A new online course would be great to help the inevitable lockdowns pass productively.
Thanks Ger. I do have some more online materials planned but they won’t be out until Spring at the earliest. But there are the existing courses and I will be making some additions to those over the winter. Thanks for your support. I’m glad you enjoy all my materials. All the best, Paul
As usual, interesting and educative.
I also appreciate your specification of the business in the outdoor industry. Without love and passion, you can’t get anything out, and the field, as you said, is not as bright as it seems.
Thanks
Thanks Adriano.
Hey there Paul, great to see you back doing the apk again, really missed it. thank you so much for all you do to educate people today.
P.S. thats is a cracking jacket you put on when it started raining , what is it, make, model.
Cheers again lad, Gil L.
Hi Gil, thanks for your enthusiasm for APK. The jacket is an old Ventile smock made by Snowsled. I talk more about towards the end of the video embedded in the following: http://paulkirtley.co.uk/2016/thermal-layer-shell-combinations-for-the-woods/
Even though Snowsled no longer produce Ventile garments, other manufacturers such as Hilltrek do.
I hope this helps.
Warm regards,
Paul
Excellent! Sooo happy.
Glad to hear it Gav. Thanks! 🙂
Paul is always informative and has an easy and catchy communicative style but I would like to have more of this valuable info in pdf form for disseminating to others
Thanks for your positive words.
Would a transcription of these sessions be useful to you?
Warm regards,
Paul
Can you not just put time stamps in the description so people who just want to listen to one answer can fast forward to it? Sure that would be easier than making five separate videos.
Hi Jason, I do already do this on YouTube, as the timestamps become live links to the point in the timeline.
I can add the timestamps here too but they wouldn’t be live links.
Warm regards,
Paul
Great to have you back Paul! Can’t wait for the next episode.
Thank you Shirley! 🙂
Hello there,
I just came across a video you were featured in with Mike from taoutdoors on bushcraft skills…I’m new to this and just looking to learn…anyway you were teaching basic skills (how to use an axe to cut wood, basic fits staring skills, the coffee drop)… I am so very impressed with how extremely in depth and intelligent you truly are, wow!!! I’ve watched the video (as well and the second one) several times now and I’m just blown away by your knowledge and how you explain everything, you are just amazing and thank you so much for being in those videos and sharing your knowledge…I feel like I know how to survive outdoors now just learning what you taught it’s truly inspiring…
Hi Angela,
Thank you for your lovely comment. I’m blushing! I’m very glad you found the collaboration with Mike over at TA Outdoors so useful and inspiriing. I’m also very happy you have found this site and are making use of the materials here. Keep in touch and let me know if you have questions.
Warm regards,
Paul
We all missed you on our screens.
It is very nice to have you back!
It’s not only that beginners appreciate this format. It also helps old foxes to reprofile own thoughts and like this it has surely a pretty high value for the whole community.
Thank you Marcus. It’s good to hear from you. Thanks for your kind words and support.
Warm regards,
Paul
Hi there Paul, Having just purchased an axe, I was researching how to look after it when I found my way your blog, which immediately seems very well thought out in terms of the information and how it’s presented, there so much to take in but it’s all laid out very well – Thank you or providing this great resource.
I have a quick question if you don’t mind: Coming from a background of hiking (mainly ultralight hiking), Bushcraft is quite new to me, the one thing that worries me slightly is the weight of the equipment. Do you think there can be a crossover point between UL Hiking and Bushcraft? A balance perhaps between durability and weight? I don’t know if this could be possible as most bushcraft equipment seems built to last, whereas in the UL community it is accepted that some gear might last only a few seasons, with even an inverse relationship between price and durability, the lighter and more expensive an ultralight item is the more likely it is to fail after a few seasons use – a trade-off readily accepted by UL Hikers because it can cut the equipment weight down on the actual current trip in hand.
Will all that said, the one thing I really do appreciate here is that the knowledge gained from reading your blog or taking a bushcraft course weighs nothing!
tl;dr: Do you think Is there the possibility of a merger between the two diciplines into something like doing some UL hiking with a bit of bushcraft thrown in? or even, dare I say it Ultralight Bushcrafting?
Grüäzi Paul,
I got aware of your blog at ta outdoors’ video as well. Working in the forest i enjoy the woods almost everyday and i’m curious about learning more as much as i can.
I listened to all of the episodes of the ask pk about two times, i really enjoy your blog and your podcast too. One of my favorite episodes of the podcast is the one with Justin Barbour, who i listened several times to and i enjoy it over and over again.
I learned a lot from your content. Making nice sparks with my firesteel, how to prioritise kit, understanding hypothermia and surely the coffeedrop which is a very nice tecnique(and a lot more). All togheter this helps enjoying the great outdoors better and safer. It even helps getting better with my english, because my girlfriend and i go to canada in this august for a year as work and travel participants.
Once you mentioned to say “hi” if we can, so i wanted to thank you for all of your knowledge you give to other people.
Looking forward for more interresting stuff and all the best from switzerland cheers.